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The Citizen reports that the case of the SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) against the EFF in the Equality Court was due to start in the Gauteng High Court on Monday.
“Sanef and a number of individual journalists have taken the EFF to the Equality Court to argue that the latter has enabled an environment in which intimidation, harassment, threats and/or assaults on journalists, including the individual complainants in this case, have been tolerated and, in fact, encouraged, creating a chilling effect on freedom of expression, access to information and freedom of the media in the country,” the forum said in a statement. In response, the EFF has argued that it did not know – and had no control over – the people responsible for the barrage of online harassment that journalists were subjected to daily. However, Sanef reacted by saying: “We believe that the EFF leadership [has] a duty to publicly condemn the actions of [its] supporters when they harass and intimidate journalists and they have systematically chosen not to. We believe that this has created an environment within which EFF supporters, and others, have felt justified in threatening journalists. We state in our court papers that we do not think journalists are above criticism – we encourage criticism. However, we oppose threats, harassment, intimidation and assaults.”
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